PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: High School Dropouts, Condiment, Vagueness
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3rd test is cumulative, march 11th, 2014. is intended in a situation in which the word is used. Terms that have blurry boundaries can be described as fuzzy. Specifically, a word or term is vague when its meaning is fuzzy, blurry, or inexact. For instance, what if i were to say -- i was making minimum wage last year? . Which set of claims is vaguer: a) the trees served to make shade for the patio, he served his country proudly, a) rooney served the church his entire life, rooney"s tennis serve is impossible to return. Joe went to the bank. (financial bank or riverbank?) An error in reasoning occurs when two distinct meanings of a word are used. Two different senses of man" here: human versus adult male. The fallacy of equivocation occurs whenever a word has one meaning in one premise and another meaning in another premise or the conclusion. This switch of senses always invalidates the argument.